"EU SMS/email tax" story debunked

[The EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages" story is echoing now. I wrote the following debunking for a mailing-list, in a futile attempt to use the wonderous power of The Internet and unpaid freelancing, I mean, "citizen journalism", to debunk bad reporting. We see how well that's working ...]

As far as I can tell, this story is being blown way, way,
out of proportion. The EU is nowhere near taxing e-mail or text
messages. One member put forth the idea in a discussion, but
it's unclear if anything ever happened after that. I managed to
trace back what might be the source:

"Participants were not short of imagination for new forms of funding:
taxes on flights, company profits or even on short text messages sent
by mobile phones. The supporter of this idea, EP own resources
rapporteur Alain Lamassoure (EPP-ED, FR), also believed that the new
system would have to be clearly linked with benefits drawn from the
European Union. Thanks to the internal market "exchanges between
countries have ballooned, so everyone would understand that the money
to finance the EU should come from the benefits engendered by the EU,"
he explained."